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| Title | A Dictionary of the Characters & Proper Names in the Works of Shakespeare: With Notes on the Sources and Dates of the Plays and Poems Dover books on Shakespeare and his times |
| Author | Francis Griffin Stokes |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Peter Smith, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0486222195, 9780486222196 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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